A latest study by Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar has revealed economic burden of rabies prevention in dog-bite cases in the summer capital where at least 6500 people became victims of canine menance last year.

To provide employment opportunities to the unemployed youth and promote water tourism, the divisional commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan today said that government is working on a plan to establish cafes along the embankments of the river Jhelum.